Fanaticscollectibles
Narrative Designer - Trading Card Game
Seattle, WA, United States. Posted 4 months ago
The role
You will build worlds, characters, and stories for trading card games. You will develop foundational lore, cosmology, and narrative structures while partnering with game design and art teams to integrate story with mechanics.
What you will do
- Develop foundational lore, cosmology, and narrative structure of new TCG worlds.
- Define factions, cultures, characters, and conflicts.
- Establish tone, themes, and emotional identity of each franchise.
- Partner with Game Design to ensure mechanics and narrative reinforce each other.
- Collaborate with Art and Creative teams to align on visual storytelling and world cohesion.
- Contribute to development of set themes, narrative arcs, and character moments.
- Develop approaches for how story is expressed through card names, flavor text, mechanics, and set structure.
- Ensure narrative is discoverable through play and collection.
- Write flavor text, card names, and supporting narrative content.
- Contribute to world guides, story bibles, and internal documentation.
Required qualifications
- 3+ years of experience in narrative design, writing, or worldbuilding for games, publishing, or related media.
- Strong ability to develop original worlds, characters, and narrative frameworks.
- Experience working in collaborative, cross-functional environments.
- Ability to balance creative vision with system constraints.
- Excellent writing skills across both short-form and long-form.
- Passion for fantasy, sci-fi, and worldbuilding-driven storytelling.
Nice to have
- Experience working on trading card games, tabletop games, or live service games
- Background in fantasy or sci-fi writing
- Familiarity with how narrative can be expressed through game systems and mechanics
- Experience contributing to original IP or franchise development
About the company
Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. It is part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem which builds a digital sports platform.